[linux-audio-dev] Re: new latency report

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Subject: [linux-audio-dev] Re: new latency report
From: Andrew Morton (andrewm_AT_uow.edu.au)
Date: Fri Jul 07 2000 - 06:21:48 EEST


Roger Larsson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The attached output shows that when we hit swap - there are
> code lines with latency problems :-(
> [the actual code tested is test3-pre2 with my latency modifications
> (improvement and profiling) but has one modification relative
> test3-pre4
> kswapd in the tested version always sleeps => problems accounted
> to the process causing it]

I'm losing sleep over kswapd.

> see the 293ms in generic_make_request...

Try adding the attached patch to your existing tree. It fixes a lot of stuff. sys_close() and sys_exit() still need attention.

> and the 704ms used to busy loop in modprobe...
> (SB16 non PnP)

Don't worry about it.

> These are worse then the previously found aux_write_dev :-(

Or this.


low-latency.patch


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